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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fava. Cognate with Portuguese fava (“broad bean”) Spanish haba (“broad bean”). Doublet of bean.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?f??.v?/
• Rhymes: -??v?

Noun

fava (plural favas or fava)

1. A fava bean; a bean (seed or seed pod) of the plant Vicia faba or the plant itself.
   • 1976, I. I. Gottesman, J. Shields, Rejoinder: Toward optimal arousal and away from original din, Schizophrenia Buletin, 2: 447-453, quoted in 2004, Jay Joseph, The Gene Illusion, page 269,

     Favism, a hemolytic anemia that follows the eating of fava or broadbeans, provides a textbook example of a genotype X environment interaction.

   • 2001, Clifford A. Wright, Mediterranean Vegetables, page 153,

     When spring arrives the fava arrives and everyone in the Mediterranean can dream up a way of cooking it.

   • 2012, John Navazio, The Organic Seed Grower: A Farmer's Guide to Vegetable Seed Production, page 268,

     In cool temperate zones favas are planted early in the growing season, several weeks before the last frost, and grown as a summer annual, much like other vegetable crops of the Fabaceae.

Usage notes

The collocation fava bean is much more common, even for the plant.

Derived terms

• fava bean
• favism

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin faba.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?fa.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?fa.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?fa.va/
• Rhymes: -a?a

Noun

fava f (plural faves)

1. fava bean

Derived terms

• favera
• favó

Further reading

• “fava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “fava” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

Italian

Etymology

From Latin faba, from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?- (“bean”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fa.va/

Noun

fava f (plural fave)

1. (botany) fava bean, broad bean
2. (vulgar, slang, Tuscany) cock

   Synonym: cazzo

Derived terms

• favata
• favetta
• favino

Related terms

• faverella
• faveto
• favismo
• sfavare

See also

• fagiolo

Further reading

• Fava on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese fava, from Latin faba (“bean”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?ab?- (“bean”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?fa.v?/
• Hyphenation: fa?va
• Rhymes: -av?

Noun

fava f (plural favas)

1. fava bean (Vicia faba)

English

Etymology 1

Noun

cava (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Cava, a Catalan white sparkling wine

Etymology 2

Noun

cava (plural cavae or cavas)

1. (anatomy) The vena cava.

Etymology 3

Noun

cava

1. plural of cavum

Anagrams

• AACV, Vaca, vaca

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin cavus (“hollow, concave”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /?ka.v?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.b?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.va/

Noun

cava f (plural caves)

1. wine cellar
2. cigar box

Noun

cava m (plural caves)

1. cava (wine)

Further reading

• “cava” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “cava” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “cava” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “cava” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Fijian

Pronoun

cava

1. what

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

cava f sg

1. feminine singular of cavo

Etymology 2

From Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

Noun

cava f (plural cave)

1. quarry, mine

Etymology 3

Verb

cava

1. third-person singular present of cavare
2. second-person singular imperative of cavare

Anagrams

• vaca

Latin

Adjective

cava

1. nominative feminine singular of cavus
2. nominative neuter plural of cavus
3. accusative neuter plural of cavus
4. vocative feminine singular of cavus
5. vocative neuter plural of cavus

Adjective

cav?

1. ablative feminine singular of cavus

Verb

cav?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of cav?

References

• cava in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Occitan

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. cellar

Further reading

• Patric Guilhemjoan, Diccionari elementari occitan-francés francés-occitan (gascon), 2005, Orthez, per noste, 2005, ?ISBN, page 44.

Portuguese

Etymology

Either derived regressively from cavar, or from Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil, Portugal) IPA^(key): /?ka.v?/
• Rhymes: -av?

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. armhole (hole for the arm in clothing)
2. pit (hole dug in the ground)

   Synonyms: vala, buraco, cavouco

3. Short for veia cava (“large vein”).

Verb

cava

1. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of cavar
2. second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of cavar

Adjective

cava

1. feminine singular of cavo

Spanish

Etymology 1

Derived regressively from the verb cavar.

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. dig

Etymology 2

From Late Latin cava, substantivized from Latin cava, the feminine of the adjective cavus.

Noun

cava f (plural cavas)

1. cave or cellar where certain kinds of wines are processed
2. in a palace, a dependency where the water and wine drunk by royalty is looked after

Noun

cava m (plural cavas)

1. sparkling wine

Related terms

• cavar
• caverna
• cavo
• cueva

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

cava

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of cavar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of cavar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of cavar.

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Adjective

cava

1. feminine singular of cavo

Anagrams

• vaca